French Manners Book

Tame for Victorian Erotica

f you expect lashings and leather, this is not your erotica.

However boastful and inexhaustible or hero may be he never imposes on his ladies. In fact the women of his several all but worn out beds are as avid for sex as he is. That is his women are sexual being of their own right and having rights to their own sexuality.

It is possible that our Captain is a proto-feminist, but mostly he admits that, to place it in a family friendly way: that part of a man which betrays his state of arousal has only its demands and no ethical qualms.

Outside of the bedroom our captain makes no claim to be a hero or better than the Afghans he moves among. In his one heroic adventure, he claims victory by luck, not by superior skill, thinking or bravery.

Altogether this is an amusing example of period porn. There is a chance that the reader is getting some minor exposure to the real camp life of British officers at the edges of the empire. In this regard, some academic should do an annotated version of this book with a historian's analysis. Certainly a good way for a historian to garner better sales.